Chertoff clueless about hurricane

WASHINGTON – In a press conference sure to deepen problems for besieged Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff, he defended the government's response to Hurricane Katrina and told reporters government planners never imagined the New Orleans disaster could have occurred.

This despite the fact that the New Orleans hurricane scenario was the Federal Emergency Management Agency's No. 1 disaster planning scenario for several years.

In fact, government officials, scientists and journalists have warned of precisely this scenario for years.

Chertoff, fielding questions from reporters, said government officials did not expect both a powerful hurricane and a breach of levees that would flood the city of New Orleans.

Source: WorldNetDaily

 

I don't understand how these officials can keep saying that they were caught by surprise by this storm. The experts have been saying for years that this would happen with a major hurricane. I remember posting information about this to my blog in September 2004:

http://jgrubbs.blogspot.com/2004/09/pray-for-people-in-new-orleans_14.html